Five drafts with four titles, which begins 'My mother and father are dead'. Footer from the final draft has the date 7/5/92 and the title 'Dear Mum & Dad', 10 leaves. Other titles are: 'Child's play', no footer on printout, 9 leaves, undated; 'An expatriate', no footer on printout, 10 leaves, undated; 'An expatriate', no footer on printout, with handwritten emendations, 10 leaves, undated; 'The successful five year old', footer in printout has the title 'Melb. Hyatt Speech', 10 leaves, undated.

Correspondence, 1999 - Bart ?, Jon Haigh, Miles Hall, Malcolm Enright.

Time turns back is most likely written by Dorothy Blewett; there is no title page. It is unknown when Dorothy Blewett wrote this play, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. It is a carbon copy typescript, 11 numbered leaves, undated.

Job A31 Dental School Accommodation Physiology Building, Title block client name is The University of Queensland, Architect is J.P. Birrell (University Architect), ink drawings on tracing paper, 1964-1965:
[Item 1] 'Working drawing' ; drawing number A31 /1 A ; Nov 1964.
[Item 2] 'Microscope laboratory benches' ; drawing number A31 / 2 ; Nov 1964.
[Item 3] 'Lecturer's bench microscope laboratory' ; drawing number A31 / 3 A ; Nov 1964.
[Item 4] 'Display fitting microscope laboratory' ; drawing number A31 / 4 ; Nov 1964.
[Item 5] 'Pin-up boards to microscope laboratory' ; drawing number A31 / 5 ; Nov 1964.
[Item 6] 'Wall benches to microscope laboratory' ; drawing number A31 / 6 ; Nov 1964.
[Item 7] 'Wall benches to office laboratory' ; drawing number A31 / 7 ; Dec 1964.
[Item 8] 'Details: Museum preparation room, oral physiology demonstration room, and storeroom' ; drawing number A31 / 8 ; Dec 1964.
[Item 9] 'Fittings to student hard tissue preparation lab' ; drawing number A31 / 9 ; [Dec 1964?].
[Item 10] 'Details: Demonstration room, temporary museum, door T.19' ; drawing number A31 / 10 ; Apr 1965.
[Item 11] 'Door schedule' ; drawing number A31 / 11 ; Nov 1964.
[Item 12] 'Details: bag rack unit microscope lab. projection' ; drawing number A31 / 12 ; Nov 1964.

Drafts, fragments of drafts of outgoing correspondence. Mostly handwritten, some on fragments of paper or on the back of envelopes.

Therese Collie interviews Susie Dickson.

Susie talks of her early life growing up in Blackpool, England, with a single mother, who came from a strong socialist family; high school education and teachers college; her first teaching job in Manchester, being evacuated, with her school, to Blackpool during the second World War; matron of a home for boys with mental disability during the war; teachers union; reasons for joining the Communist Party; emigrating to Australia in 1957 with her husband Ian and four children; first impressions of Townsville and Queensland; the formation of a branch of the Local Government Women's Association (LGWA) in Townsville by Lady Jessie Groom; being Chairman of LGWA, other women involved in the association; working for the Prisoner's Aid Society; LGWA folding after 11 years and its activities over the years; working on an oral history project, for Margaret Reynolds office, on women who've been involved in the labour movement in north Queensland; being the first female juror in Townsville in the 1960's; working as a tutor for Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander students at the Boys Grammar in Townsville.

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.

Typescript of presentation 'The Oasis: Brisbane's Water Playground', accompanied by a postcard showing a waterfall at the entrance of the Oasis. The Oasis was a privately-owned garden, water park and zoo in Sunnybank, open to the public for recreational use.

Four letters (two handwritten and two typescript). Correspondents include John Bostock, Joshua P. Bell and someone (signature indecipherable) from Dalgety and Company, regarding the recommendation of Colin Basil Peter Bell for the job of manager at Ayrshire Downs.